Vanessa Van Edwards

Modern-day Dale Carnegie

Vanessa Van Edwards is lead investigator at the Science of People—a human behavior research lab. She is the national bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People, which was chosen as one of Apple’s Most Anticipated Books of 2017. She writes a monthly column on the science of success for Entrepreneur Magazine and the Huffington Post. Her original research has been featured in Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, TIME, Forbes, INC and USA Today. As a human behavior hacker she runs original research experiments on topics such as the science of leadership, human lie detection, body language hacks, the psychology of attraction and successful people skills at ScienceofPeople.com. Vanessa has been asked to discuss her innovative work on CNN, CBS Morning news and NPR. She has also consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies including Dove, Symantec and American Express.